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Tammi Rossman-BenjaminLecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, lecturer in Hebrew at UC Santa Cruz, has spearheaded the fight against antisemitism on the University of California campuses. In 2009, she published a study titled Anti-Zionism and the Abuse of Academic Freedom: A Case Study at the University of California, Santa Cruz (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, No. 77, 1 February 2009)

Based on her study, she filed a formal complaint of antisemitic events on the campus with the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in June 2009. In March 2011, the Office finally acted and notified the university that it will be investigating allegations a series of "pro-Palestinian events" at the university crossed the line into anti-semitism and created a hostile environment for Jewish students.

Rossman-Benjamin has been involved with research on the Hebrew language and culture; biblical Hebrew syntax and semantics; the Hebrew Bible; Jewish thought; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition and bilingualism.